GvTagsWiki: Release Plan

Current release: 0.3.1 February 18, 2008

Include OpenJPA and Derby
Example how to use annotations with JPA
Command line option to activate a AJP13 connector for mod_jk
Add version of GvTags to context as an attribute
Create an empty application in the All-in-one Release which can serve as an starting point for a new application
Use groovydoc to create documentation for gvtags
Display offending code on error page.
Cleaning up of the CodeSnippetCache and the ScriptEngine
Refactoring of the directory structure
Minimize Java code
More performance improvements
Parameters for forward
Unification of TagContext for GvTags in JSP in GTL
Unit tests for examples
AJAX tags for dojo
HTML tags

The released version is mostly a proof of concept and an implementation of a subset of groovy tags.

GvTags now contains about sixteen tags. This makes it complete enough to write small web applications
GvTags comes now with a set of examples, which show how to build web applications in Groovy
Based on Groovy-1.0-beta-10 (classic parser)
GvTags is still experimental. It's not appropriate for productive applications. But it can be used for prototyping and to explore the power of Groovy.
Error handling and reporting is still marginal.
The files I released on March 28 were incomplete, I had to update them on March 30.

GvTags has more the twenty tags. This makes it complete enough to write most web applications.
New Tags in release 0.0.3: elsif, switch, case, default, import, actionbean
GvTags comes with a set of extensive examples, which show how to build web applications in Groovy
New examples in release 0.0.3: an adress database, a memory monitor
Improvements in the groovy scriptlet engine
Still based on Groovy-1.0-beta-10 (classic parser).
GvTags is still experimental. It's not appropriate for productive applications. But it can be used for prototyping and to explore the power of Groovy.
Error handling and reporting is still marginal.

GvTags has more the twenty tags. This makes it complete enough to write most web applicatons.
It comes with a set of extensive examples, which show how to build web applications in Groovy
GvTags is still experimental. It's not appropriate for productive applications. But it can be used for prototyping and to explore the power of Groovy.
Unfortunately it is still based on the classic Groovy syntax (Groovy-1.0-beta10)
After having finished this release the work has started to migrate GvTags to the new Groovy syntax.

ActionServlet to implement MVC with a controller servlet
New tags in release 0.0.4: log, debug
New utility class gvtags.util.TreeWalker for tree traversal (see thread view in memo example)
Improved error reporting and exception handling
Use of Apache Jakarta Commons logging for debug output
The packages and class names have been restructured.

GvTag 0.1.0 is the first release to support the new Groovy Syntax (JSR). It's implemented using the current Groovy release Groovy 1.0 JSR-02.

Based on the current Groovy Release 1.0 JSR-03
Uses the groovy-all jar file which avoids compatibility problems with used libraries

TemplateEngine for GTL (GvTags Template Language) supporting tags, based on Groovy as an alternative for JSP
TagTemplateEngine to process strings, files and resources from Groovy and Java with GTL
TagTemplateServlet to use GTL in web pages